AIM:
Over a decade, the web technology has been growth dramatically fast. From the simple browsing text pages to the pages with animation, motion graphics, video and more, we can see the changes. Within these 10 years, to make web-pages become so interactive, this is it, Macromedia Flash.
COTENT:
From a software that supports simple static text and low resolution images support for web, until today uses by over 97% internet users, Macromedia Flash has become one of the vital software for web and web design. It is consistently improved by time to time. Like in the 2nd version, it started to provide simple scripting and timeline control functions; in 4th version, the scripting was developed to the point that could enable dynamic interactive content; and now, the latest version 8, it includes video codec for video playback. The best example would be the Website, Youtube, it has become the biggest site for online videos which are all rely on Flash support. For the multimedia project, we need to produce an interactive CD-ROM with animation and videos. We find that, by using flash, it is extremely easy for video playback with build-in video player.
Furthermore, when working with the project, we notice that Flash provides us convenience to create animation, especially vector graphics, which enable to rescale size without losing qualities.
Although it has a lot of advantages, however, the main criticism is all the content created by Flash, such as mini game, advertisements, or webpage, which have to run by flash-player plug-in. And also, if the website is made by totally in Flash, it will be comparably difficult to be found by search engine. Another issue would be, the things that created by Flash will not be able to select and copy, like texts, by comparing with HTML webpage, texts can be highlighted and copied to other documents, but Flash will not allow users to perform that such actions.
In the future, it can be predicted that Flash will dominant in the whole World Wide Web, and also in multimedia product. At the moment, Flash has also getting involved with game player, such as PSP, which also provide flash plug-in for users to browse on the web. Also, Flash will be developed which able to corporate with other programming scripting.
